To Create a Style From a Shape in the Structural Member Catalog

Use this procedure to create a structural member style from a shape that you select in the Structural Member Catalog.

  1. Click Manage tabStyle & Display panelStructural Member Catalog.

    A tree view in the left pane of the catalog lists the available shapes.

  2. Expand Imperial or Metric in the tree view.
  3. Expand the type of material (Concrete, Steel, or Timber) for the structural shape that you want to create with the style.
  4. Expand the shape that you want to create.

    Depending on the member, you may need to expand one or more levels in the tree.

  5. Select the shape type of the member that you want to create.

    In the top right pane, a preview of the shape displays.

    In the bottom right pane, a list of the available sizes of the selected shape display. The following shapes may take a significant amount to time to display:

    • Imperial Steel AISC HSS and Pipes HSS, Small Hollow Structural Sections
    • Metric Steel CISC Angles L, Angle Shapes
    • Metric Steel CISC I-Shaped W, Wide Flange Shapes
    • Metric Steel CISC I-Shaped WWF, Welded Wide Flange Shapes
    • Metric Steel CISC Structural Tees WT, Shapes
  6. Under Shape Designation in the bottom right pane, select the shape size that you want to use to create your style, right-click, and click Generate Member Style.
  7. Enter a style name, if necessary, and click OK.

    The name of the shape is used as the default style name. Special characters in the shape name, such as quotation marks, are substituted with underscores. If you change the default style name, you cannot use any of the following special characters in your style name:

    • Less-than and greater-than symbols (< >)
    • Forward slashes and backslashes (/ )
    • Quotation marks (")
    • Colons (:)
    • Semicolons (;)
    • Question marks (?)
    • Commas (,)
    • Asterisks (*)
    • Vertical bars (|)
    • Equal signs (=)
    • Back quotes (`)
  8. Continue creating structural member styles, or click to close the Structural Member Catalog.

    9. You can access the style that you created in the Style Manager, create a new structural member tool from the style, modify an existing tool to use that style, or apply the style to an existing member.

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